Furgol

Dr. Mary Theresa Furgol

History

Dr. Furgol

Mary Furgol grew up in Fife, Scotland. She earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Edinburgh, after completing her M.A. there with First Class Honors and graduating with distinction in history and religious studies education from Craiglockhart College of Education. Dr. Furgol's dissertation focused on the problems of poor relief provision in an early industrializing society. She has taught at American University and Mount St. Mary's College and has taught full-time at Montgomery College since 1992. During that time she chaired the History and Political Science department for nine years and has conducted a number of travel study tours to Scotland, Ireland and England. She has contributed to a book of critical essays on Thomas Chalmers and given several lecture series in the Smithsonian Campus on the Mall program. In 2002 she received an NEH grant on the topic of Cities in a Comparative Cultural Context, the results of which were published in the spring of 2004. Currently she is director of the Montgomery Scholars Program and Chair of the department. She has taught modern world history, European history, British history, the History of Ireland, the History of Scotland and Western Women's History, as well as running Honors seminars on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Victorian Women, and the History of Medicine.